Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)

Kumi SugaïWW-1973-M052358

1973·Screenprint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts·composition: 24 1/2 x 19 1/2" (62.3 x 49.5cm); sheet: 27 15/16 x 21 1/4" (71 x 53.9cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1973
Medium: Screenprint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts
Dimensions: composition: 24 1/2 x 19 1/2" (62.3 x 49.5cm); sheet: 27 15/16 x 21 1/4" (71 x 53.9cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Kumi Sugaï

Artist

Kumi Sugaï

Painting

Kumi Sugaï was a Japanese painter and printmaker whose abstract work synthesized gestural mark-making with structured geometric form. Active from the postwar period onward, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of calligraphic lines, bold color fields, and interlocking shapes that drew equally from Japanese artistic tradition and European modernism. His paintings and prints occupied a deliberate middle ground between lyrical abstraction and constructive order, resisting pure gestural freedom while avoiding rigid systematization. This profile will be expanded as more verified source material becomes available.

Higashinada-ku, Japan

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